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INSIDE SCOOP: Immersive Education Initiative
TWITTER - track daily activity
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The Immersive Education Initiative is a non-profit
international collaboration
of universities, colleges, research institutes, consortia
and companies that are
working together to define and develop open standards,
best practices,
platforms, and communities of support for virtual reality
and game-based
learning and training systems. Over a thousand faculty,
researchers, staff,
administrators and students are members of the Immersive
Education Initiative,
which is growing at the rate of approximately 2 new
members every day.
Membership is FREE and open to the global academic
community.
Immersive Education Initiative: http://ImmersiveEducation.org
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Follow the Immersive Education Initiative's official
TWITTER group for the
"inside scoop", sneak previews, and early
access to initiative activities:
http://twitter.com/immersive
Recent Inside Scoop tweets:
- Director of Immersive Education Initiative receives
Campus Technology Innovator's award before delivering keynote address. http://tr.im/uLZZ12:56 PM Jul 30th
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- VIDEO: "Immersive Education: An Open Source
Collaborative Environment" Campus Tech presentation by Sun's Keith
Rajecki http://tr.im/uLSa12:46 PM Jul 30th from
web
- Matt, Kamal, Cary, Rich, Wes, Nick: Submitted
footage of iED' "Rocket World" to Aaron for review & inclusion
in new presentations and video.9:52 AM Jul 24th
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- Jerome: Revised Immersive Education's "Library
Applications and Services Requirements: Working Draft". http://MediaGrid.org/groups9:47 AM Jul 24th
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- Wes: Met with Boston's Mayor to discuss Immersive
Education High School, and showed him video from iED's "Rocket
World" science program.9:42 AM Jul 24th
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- Aaron: Preparing keynote for "Immersive
Education Day: Kansas & Missouri" conference on JULY 27. Details
at http://vweducation.ning.com1:14 PM Jul 23rd
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- John: Proposed Aug 12th for the next Immersive
Education Initiative Board of Director's meeting.12:14 PM Jul 23rd
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- Preparing photo/video shoot of Immersive Education
Initiative's "Rocket World" K6/K12/college science projects http://ImmersiveEducation.org2:42 PM Jul 22nd
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- Nick, Michael, Aaron: Preparing Immersive
Education's first "Japan node" on the Education Grid. http://TheEducationGrid.org8:00 PM Jul 21st
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- MEETING: iED Library Technology Working Group
(LIB.TWG) in-world meeting Monday July 20 @ 7:00pm EDT http://MediaGrid.org/groups4:00 PM Jul 18th
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- Chris and Nick: Installing and configuring
collaborative document editing tool on new Immersive Education Initiative
web site.1:31 PM Jul 18th
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- Chris: Updating Wonderland nodes on Education Grid
in preparation for Second Life (RealXtend & OpenSim) nodes http://TheEducationGrid.org10:42 PM Jul 16th
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- Aaron: Confirming board meeting @ USS Constitution
Museum to plan iED's "Old Ironsides" http://tr.im/sEqh
& http://ImmersiveEducation.org1:15 PM Jul 16th
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- Doug: Posted overview of the new Multi-Threaded Game
Engine (MT Game) that will be used by the Wonderland iED platform: http://tr.im/sEeL1:02 PM Jul 16th
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- Psychology of Immersive Environments Technology
Working Group (PIE.TWG) launch event has begun. Join at http://tr.im/swSY6:53 PM Jul 15th
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- Original reference to "Immersive Illness"
in preparation for Psychology of Immersive Environments (PIE.TWG) launch
today: http://tr.im/sukE1:59 PM Jul 15th
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- DEADLINE TODAY! $10,000 CONTENT CREATION CONTEST FOR
IMMERSIVE EDUCATION! CONTEST DETAILS, PRIZES & RULES AT http://colladacontest.com11:22 AM Jul 15th
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- Rich: Preparing for tomorrow's Psychology of
Immersive Environments Technology Working Group (PIE.TWG) launch. http://MediaGrid.org/groups2:24 PM Jul 14th
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- iED Board of Directors: Reviewing final draft of
"Immersive Education High School" press release. http://ImmersiveEducation.org12:34 PM Jul 14th
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- DEADLINE
IN 1 DAY: $10,000 CONTENT CREATION CONTEST FOR IMMERSIVE EDUCATION!
CONTEST DETAILS, PRIZES & RULES AT http://colladacontest.com12:32 PM Jul 14th
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